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Since Microsoft & .NET Team is pushing so hard in the cross-platform solutions, will the Linux community see Visual Studio run on Linux? Since it is a great IDE with amazing tools, some of us are wondering will we see it on our preferred OS? I'm in love with the .NET, improvements and opportunities it gives. C# is my first and favourite language and I just can't get enough of it. Love everything. But I'm on Linux, as a platform of choice(Arch Linux, to be specific), and sometimes I miss the good tool VS. Yes, we have VSCode, but the performance isn't always there. And sometimes, it just isn't performing good enough or have enough features. There already is "Visual Studio for macOS", ported from the MonoDevelop. And since they just can't keep up with the real VS IDE, they left developing it. So, the decade old question remains. And since .NET 6 unifies all platforms, is there a chance we can see it ported? I'm sure there are a lot of people wishing it too.
I'm right there with you on that one. I've been a developer for 37 yrs. Linux is lacking in developer tools. Visual Studio for Linux would be the best thing that ever happened to Linux IMO..
They got the idea and it is under consideration. If you think it is important for you, please vote.
Btw, in the meantime the expected way to work on "for Linux" project is to install the distros under WSL on Win10 and debug there.
The closest to visual studio for linux is Jet Brains Rider.
It does not seem to be that different from VS Code, so what's the point in changing?
I am using Jet Brains Rider on Linux for 2 years and I don't feel missing the heavy Visual Studio.
The most important deficit of Visual Studio that I can't tolerate is the search in files, where Rider is so much faster.
If you don't have to develop tens of project in different technologies, go with Rider, once set, you will stick with it.
I wish to move my website that was built with VS to JB Rider for Linux. But it lacks a web form designer GUI interface for the '.aspx' files. JB is aware of this need. Designing from just coding is too laborious.
as webforms is not supported in the cross platform asp.net (core), this is not really an issue.
there are no designers for asp.net core
same here, the search is the strongest deal breaker in VS and VS studio
I love Rider, also bcs Im coming from PHP and was using PhpStorm so it was an easy switch
Hi @Viko ,
Thanks for the reply from cheong00.
According to your description, you would like to use the Visual Studio for Linux. But the Visual Studio IDE is only available for Windows. You could try to running a Virtual Machine with Windows.
In addition, for your requirement, it has been reported here: Visual Studio for Linux.
You can also add your comments in there to track the process, then we need to waiting for the response comes from the product team engineers. If there is any update, I will also add it here.
Sincerely,
Anna
I would love it also
Linux has already the best tools every developers dream about.
Only not so much about MS technos, so I agree VisualStudio should come to Linux, like VSCode that has been much appreciated by the open-source dev community.
MS open-source technos that requires VisualStudio like MAUI would gain a significant popularity boost.
Also theres JetBrains Rider which is superior to VS an many levels imo,.... at least for front-end dev and VCS, not sure about backend / c# workflow tho
...and it is available for all three linux, macos and windows
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